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Savigny

(ˈsavɪɲɪ)
n
(Biography) Friedrich Karl von (ˈfridrɪç ˈkɑl fɔn). 1779–1861, German legal scholar, who pioneered the historical approach to jurisprudence, emphasizing custom and precedent
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The Greek jewellery chain said it had appointed Deloitte and Savigny Partners to look into sale options.
Sir Savigny Hotel is a 5-star hotel situated in the popular district Charlottenburg in Berlin.
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(2) The figure most closely associated with historical jurisprudence is Friedrich Karl von Savigny. (3) Through his theoretical work, and his work reforming and administering the German university system, Savigny apparently became, in his time, as renowned as Goethe.
2 (June 2015): Special section: "Women in European Political Science." Issue editors: Stephen Bates & Heather Savigny. Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research.
For those approaching the midline from the historicist camp, such as Savigny, the extent to which posited and customary law mirrored, free from all elements of voluntarism, the legal dimension of the spirit of the people was the ultimate test of legitimacy for law.
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Discovery 2008, an open house organized by SMAG every two years, took place at the company's Savigny sur Orge factory in France during three days in November.
1457: A sow was convicted of killing a child in Savigny, in France.